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Adverbs
- Title
- Adverbs / Daniel Handler.
- Author
- Handler, Daniel.
- Publication
- New York : Ecco, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3558.A4636 A66 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 272 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Adverbs is a novel about love - a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel, Andrea is in love with David - or maybe it's Joe - who instead falls in love with Peter in a taxi. At the end of the novel, it's Joe who's in the taxi, falling in love with Andrea, although it might not be Andrea, or in any case it might not be the same Andrea, as Andrea is a very common name. So is Allison, who is married to Adrian in the middle of the novel, although in the middle of the ocean she considers a fling with Keith and also with Steve, whom she meets in an automobile, unless it's not the same Allison who meets the Snow Queen in a casino, or the same Steve who meets Eddie in the middle of the forest." "It might sound confusing, but that's love, and as the author says, "It is not the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done." This novel is about people trying to find love in the ways it is done before the volcano erupts and the miracle ends. Yes, there's a volcano in the novel."--BOOK JACKET.
- ISBN
- 0060724412
- LCCN
- 2005052101
- 9780060724412
- OCLC
- OCM61362193
- SCSB-5245053
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries